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French Legends eBook Series

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  • The Life and Legacy of Jean-Paul Marat

    Edited by Charles River Editors ...
    Series Book 8 - French Legends
    “People, give thanks to the gods! Your most redoubtable enemy has fallen beneath the scythe of Fate.” – Jean-Paul MaratA lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history’s most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors’ French series, readers can get caught up to speed on the lives of France’s most important men and women in the time ... Read more

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  • The Life and Legacy of Maximilien Robespierre

    Edited by Charles River Editors ...
    Series Book 9 - French Legends
    In many ways it is fitting that Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794) is one of the best known figures of the French Revolution, if not its most famous. The early years of the Revolution were fueled by Enlightenment ideals, seeking the social overthrow of the caste system that gave the royalty and aristocracy decisive advantages over the lower classes. Few were as vocal in their support of ... Read more

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  • A New World Begins

    The History of the French Revolution

    by Jeremy Popkin ...
    From an award-winning historian, a magisterial account of the revolution that created the modern world.** “A fresh and fair-minded account of the revolution overflowing with vivid narrative detail and clear exposition.” —**Wall Street JournalThe French Revolution’s principles of liberty and equality still shape our ideas of a just society—even if, after more than two hundred years, their meaning ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • Fatal Purity

    Robespierre and the French Revolution

    by Ruth Scurr ...
    Franco-British Society Literary Prize WinnerShortlisted for The Duff Cooper Prize.Long-listed for The Samuel Johnson Prize.A "One Hundred Best Books of the Decade" in The Times (London)"Judicious, balanced, and admirably clear at every point. This is quite the calmest and least abusive history of the Revolution you will ever read." —Hilary Mantel, London Review of Books</em... ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Giant of the French Revolution

    Danton, A Life

    by David Lawday ...
    A biography of Georges-Jacques Danton, a leading French revolutionary—from his rural upbringing to his death five years after the storming of the Bastille.One of the Western world's most epic uprisings, the French Revolution ended a monarchy that had ruled for almost a thousand years. Georges-Jacques Danton was the driving force behind it. Now David Lawday, author of Napoleon's Master, reveals the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The French Revolution and Napoleon

    Crucible of the Modern World

    by Professor Emeritus Lynn Hunt, Jack R. Censer ...
    In this book Lynn Hunt and Jack R. Censer lucidly trace events from 1789 until the fall of Napoleon, stressing the global dimensions of the French Revolution and offering balanced coverage of both its causes and outcomes. In doing so, Hunt and Censer reaffirm its huge significance for the modern political world in the process.Hunt and Censer give due attention to global competition, fiscal crisis, ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Enquiring History: The French Revolution

    by Dave Martin ...
    Think more deeply and work more independently at A level History through a carefully thought-out enquiry approach from SHP.Enquiring History: It makes you think!The OFSTED report on school history suggests that the current generation of A Level students have been poorly served by exam-based textbooks which spoon-feed students while failing to enthuse them or develop deeper understandings of ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Glory and the Sorrow

    A Parisian and His World in the Age of the French Revolution

    by Timothy Tackett ...
    An intimate history of an ordinary Parisian citizen and his neighbors that reflects on the origins and radicalization of the French Revolution. What was it like to live through one of the most transformational periods in world history? In The Glory and the Sorrow, eminent historian Timothy Tackett answers this question through a masterful recreation of the world of Adrien Colson, a minor lawyer ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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  • The French Revolution and Napoleon

    Crucible of the Modern World

    by Jack R. Censer, Professor Emeritus Lynn Hunt ...
    Lynn Hunt and Jack R. Censer's The French Revolution and Napoleon provides a globally-oriented narrative history of events from 1789 until the fall of Napoleon. It emphasizes the global origins and consequences of the French Revolution and explains why it is the formative event for modern politics.The book integrates global competition, fiscal crisis, slavery and the beginnings of nationalism with ... Read more

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  • The Life of Louis XVI

    by John Hardman ...
    A thought-provoking, authoritative biography of one of history’s most maligned rulers: France’s Louis XVI“The definitive contribution to our understanding of Louis XVI as a man and a monarch.”—P. M. Jones, English Historical Review“Monumental. . . . Scholars probing the mysteries of the late Old Regime and French Revolution will be working in its shadow for many years to come.”—Thomas E. Kaiser, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • For Altar and Throne

    The Rising in the Vendee

    by Michael Davies ...
    It is a matter of regret that very few English-speaking Catholics know anything whatsoever about the events that took place in the Vendee region of France during the French Revolution of 1789. The aim of this book is to commemorate the visit of Pope John Paul II to the Vendee, where the people remained faithful to the Vicar of Christ and attached to their parishes and their priests, in spite of ... Read more

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  • Secret Societies

    Illuminati, Freemasons, and the French Revolution

    by Birch, Una ...
    The greatest success of the Bavarian Illuminati conspiracy was the French Revolution of 1789. The profound impact of that Revolution is felt to this day in the political destinies of billions of people worldwide. The Illuminati had declared war against Church and State a decade earlier and worked feverishly to spread their new gospel of Liberty and Reason. Although the Order was officially ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD